Nests Washed Out!

Well, Arcturas, the double star (36.7 light years away), is all that was lighting up the night sky earlier this week as we regrouped from the end July/early August storms.  Many of the sea turtle nests have been washed out.

You might recall we were excited to come home from our Virgina and North Carolina travels and find two nests marked in front of our condo.

Then came the storms and things got a bit wet . . .











and sadly stayed wet . . . the CMA (who monitors our beach for turtles) tried to help,

and then came even bigger storms - with some of the highest tides seen in living memory say the locals.  The winds and a blue moon didn't help.

lookin' a bit iffy for the nest stakes

We watched helpless to help the drowning turtle eggs beneath the sand . . .

drunken stake about to fall into the sea

and the stakes were gone somewhere into the Gulf of Mexico - our eggs certainly drown, all part of mother nature.  

gone!  stakes washed into the sea

The second nest outside our condo got a good bath, but the stakes are still there and we are hopeful.

Meanwhile I got on with crocheting two belts (even modifying the pattern myself) and finished piecing my dahlia quilt!!

A good number of total nests didn't make it, but a few still hatch and at least the kids enjoyed the Atlantic Ocean sized surf.

From Laura Albright who 
found this hatchling this morning